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Creating Timeline Views

Creating Timeline Views is one of the easiest things you can do to make your workday more efficient. Timeline Views allow you to create a library of different ways you like to have your Timeline displayed for various tasks. Timeline Views can be customized with the following:

Font style and size (see the Font size adjustment recipe in this chapter).
Settings found in the Timeline Window Fast Menu (hamburger-looking icon) in the lower-left corner of the Timeline Window. The settings there include things such as track color and the ability to enable/disable features such as Dupe Detection, Waveform Display, Clip Color display, and more.

Creating custom Timeline Views is very easy. After the recipe, there will be some ideas and tips for Timeline Views in the There's more… section.

How to do it...

To create Timeline Views, perform the following steps:

Load a Sequence into the Timeline Window.
Adjust the attributes and enable/disable features such as (but not limited to) the following:
- Track Height
- Track Control Panel Display
- Waveform Display
- Volume Display
- Dupe Detection
- Clip Color Display
- Font Style and/or Size (see the Font size adjustment recipe in this chapter)
Click on the View Menu at the bottom of the Timeline Window.
Select the Save As option.
The View Name dialog box opens.
Type in a name.
Click on OK.

There's more...

Next we'll take a look at some additional topics that will help you get more out of using Timeline Views.

Default Timeline View

Media Composer provides an easy way to get back to its preset default (you'll find it as the very first selection in the Timeline Window's Fast Menu, labeled as Default Setup). Further, you may want to consider creating your own Timeline View that you prefer to be your own personal default, so that you can access it quickly.

Updating Timeline Views

After making a change to a Timeline View, Media Composer adds a .1 at the end of the name and makes the name display in italics. There are two ways to save the updated view without creating an entirely new one, as follows:

From the View Menu select Save As. In the View Menu dialog box erase the .1 that was added. When you press the OK button, another dialog box will ask you to either cancel or confirm the update.
Hold down the option/Alt key. When you click on the View Menu, you'll see that each selection now includes the word Replace before it. Select the appropriate Timeline View to update. Another dialog box will ask you to either cancel or confirm the update.

Offline warning

I suggest that within all the different Timeline Views that you create, you should include the Offline warning color display. Perform the following steps:

Go to the Timeline View Fast Menu and select Clip Color.
The Clip Color dialog box opens.
Enable/check the selection at the top labeled as Offline.
Click on the OK button.
As long as the active Timeline View includes the Offline color being enabled, any time you have offline clips in your sequence they will be displayed as bright red and easy to detect.

Timeline background color

At the time of writing, this feature is currently not working in version 6. However, I'm including it for anyone using an earlier release, as well as in the hope that it will be returned in the future.

The default Timeline Window has a gray background color. You can actually set it to be whatever you prefer. My personal choice is to make the Timeline Window's background black. I like the higher contrast and find it easier on my eyes over a long workday. To change the Timeline Window's background color, perform the following steps:

Start with doing one of the following:
- Deselect/turn off all the Track Selectors in the Timeline Window.
- Clear the Timeline Window from displaying any sequence. Above the Record Monitor, where you see the name of your sequence, there is actually a menu (Avid calls it the Record Monitor Clip Name Menu). Click there and choose Clear Monitor.
Go to the Timeline Window's Fast Menu and select Background Color (note that if any tracks are enabled, this selection will read as Track Color).
Select a color from the palette (also see the More color selections section ahead).

Switch Timeline Views from the keyboard

When you map Timeline Views to the keyboard or interface (note that mapping buttons and menu selections are discussed in more detail later in this chapter), Media Composer assigns whatever happens to be the first Timeline View in your settings list as Timeline View #1, the second in the list as Timeline View #2, and so on. Perform the following steps:

Go to the Project Window and click on the Settings tab.
Locate your Timeline Views.
Update each Timeline View name by placing a number before it (for example, 1. Audio Mixing, 2. Effect Editing, and so on). While this is not technically necessary, it will make your life a bit easier when mapping them and will keep them from shifting position if you change the name in the future.
Open your Keyboard settings by double-clicking on them in the settings list.
Open the Command Palette by selecting the Tools menu and then choosing Command Palette.
In the lower-left corner of the Command Palette, enable the selection that says Button To Button Reassignment.
Select the tab labeled as More.
Now you can drag-and-drop the "T1" through "T8" buttons onto the keyboard.

See the discussion earlier in this chapter titled Settings overview for more information about activating, naming, duplicating, deleting, and restoring settings.

More color selections

When selecting colors for your Timeline tracks or background, you can expand your choices beyond what the Media Composer palette gives you. Perform the following steps:

Hold down option/Alt.
Go to the Timeline Window's Fast Menu and select Track Color or Background Color.
The Media Composer color palette appears.
Select any color from the palette.
The custom color picker associated with your computer's operating system will open.
Create a custom color.
Click on OK.